Kris
Kroner (1997) - This episode was another "Clip
Show"- meaning that the plot includes scenes from several episodes
from the previous 2 seasons. I will indicate which episode each clip
comes from by indicating the title of the show in *italics.*

Stormy Evening - Legacy House

Kat sleeps fitfully as a storm rages outside. Periodically, lightening
illuminates the bedroom. She's having a nightmare and calling out in
her sleep, "No!"

Clip. Rachel tells Kat they have to leave and get away from these people.
Joshua Cantwell attempts to take Kat despite Derek trying to protect
her. *The Reckoning -Season 1*

Library

Kat gets up and walks into the library and finds Alex working there.
She asks to see her mother and Alex reassures her she's downstairs waiting
for Derek's call, and asks if everything is all right. Kat tells her
she had a bad dream and Alex offers to let her sleep in her bed until
Rachel comes upstairs.

Downstairs

Rachel stands at the window clutching a telephone. She appears anxious
and nervous. Suddenly, and with a great deal of resolve, she dials the
phone.

Highway during severe storm

Nick drives the 4X4 as he and Derek discuss that the exorcism took
place just over the Nevada border and, with the storm, it'll take just
about 2 hours to get there. The phone rings and Derek answers. Rachel
tells Derek they need to talk and that she had planned to tell him this
in person but Alex had told her they won't be back until Thursday. Derek
looks stunned as Rachel tells him she's taking Kat and leaving the Legacy
for good. Before he can respond, the storm knocks out the telephone
connection. Nick, surprised, says he can't believe she'd leave without
talking to them. Derek reminds him that their original plans had them
leaving the following day. They decide to turn back.

Alex's Bedroom

As Alex tucks Kat in, the little girl apologizes for not always being
nice to Alex. When Alex denies that she was ever rude to her, Kat reminds
her about one time in the kitchen. Clip:
Alex wants to talk to Kat about her missing friend while she makes
her monster sandwich. Kat, even though very upset, refuses to discuss
anything and tells her to leave her alone. *Lullaby -Season 2*

Alex smiles and reminds her that the nice thing about being friends
is that they can disagree and even feel angry with each other but in
the end it doesn't change the way they feel. Kat asks if they'll be
friends even if they move away and Alex tells her the only place she's
going to is to sleep. She turns off the light and leaves the room.

Library

As Alex enters, she finds Rachel, frantically searching for Kat. Alex
reassures her she had a bad dream and she put Kat in her own bedroom.
Then she asks Rachel if everything is OK. Rachel says no and tells her
they're leaving the Legacy and she was wrong to ever come in the first
place. Alex attempts to get her to talk and Rachel tells her it's been
building up inside of her and reminds Alex of the night in the farmhouse.
Clip:
Philip, possessed by Ravenwood, knocks Rachel unconscious. She awakens
in the coffin. *Repentance- Season 2*

Rachel tells Alex she was sure she was going to die there in the coffin.
Alex reminds her that now, she's at the Legacy and very much alive,
but Rachel continues and says that the events of that night have been
playing in her mind like an endless loop. She goes on and says that
her pain and guilt have her worrying about Kat and she's concerned about
taking risks because what will happen to Kat if something happens to
her . Alex reminds her that when Romero stalked her, Rachel came to
the Legacy for help. Clip: Romero
stalks Rachel to try to kill her. The entire team bands together to
protect Rachel and Kat from him. *Transference - Season 2*

Rachel still feels strongly and tells Alex she must leave. Her argument
is that if she doesn't try she won't be able to live with herself. Alex
replies that she doesn't have to leave and that both she and Kat belong
there. Rachel's reminds her about the demands the Legacy puts on their
personal lives as well as the way they choose violence. She remembers
Tracy Lasker.Clip: A
lupin has been killing people. The entire Legacy team, except Rachel,
decide that the only safe way to prevent future deaths is to kill the
werewolf. *Rough Beast - Season 2*

Rachel reminds Alex she wanted to let it live. Because she's a doctor
she took a vow to save life and the only thing here at the Legacy is
death and violence. Alex reminds her that it was Rachel in danger and
not the girl, Tracy. Clip: Tracy
turns into a werewolf in front of Rachel's eyes and tries to kill her.
Derek and Nick stop it and kill it. *Rough Beast - Season 2*

Alex, showing emotion now, tells Rachel, "Your physician oath
doesn't apply here. This is war and it can't be won without confronting
evil. Evil doesn't play by the rules." She goes on to tell Rachel
that out there she'll be vulnerable and alone and if she stayed with
them she'd have the safety of the house.

Rachel reminds her that Angeline attacked inside the house.Clip:
Alex, working in the control room
is confronted and attacked by Angeline. *Ransom - Season 2*

Rachel asks Alex why she doesn't see that the house is like a magnet,
a lightening rod, for evil. She suggests she should leave also, but
Alex tells her she came to the house to make a difference and is staying.
Rachel smugly replies that they both agree to disagree then.

Highway - Still raining

Car phone rings and Alex tells them she's trying to reason with Rachel
but she's not listening to her. Rachel's blaming everything on the Legacy
and asks Derek to remember Christmas.Clip:
Derek tries to reason with Rachel
and tell her that Kat may be on the other side with Connor. Rachel refuses
to believe and Derek tries to reason with her to get her to call to
Kat. *The Gift - Season 2*

Derek, looking concerned, tells Alex to stop her from leaving. She
promises she'll try. Nick looks over at Derek and reminds him that Rachel
has always had major doubts since the beginning.Clip:
Rachel, after being brought to
the house from Ireland demands to leave. *Pilot - Season 1*

Living Room

Rachel looks around the room and sees a picture of her husband, Patrick
and Kat. Clip: While
Rachel talks with Seamus Bloom, the demon that has taken over his spirit
impersonates her husband Patrick in order to impregnate her with the
demon's child. *Pilot - Season 1*

Rachel, upset by that memory, moves to a chair near the fire and curls
up in it while trying to convince herself she's doing the right thing.
She dozes off.

Foyer - Legacy House

Nick and Derek, both wearing dark leather jackets, enter, noting they
see Rachel's car so she's still in the house. They find Alex who doesn't
know what room she's in so they all split up to look.

Living Room

Rachel awakens and sees a statue across the room that reminds her of
when she had the demon's child, right there in the Legacy house. Clip:
Rachel goes into labor and delivers
a demon child that drags her around the room by it's umbilical cord.
*Pilot - Season 1*

Shaken by that memory, she moves over to the piano and starts to play.
Clip: Rachel,
while being possessed by Rebecca, plays a haunting melody on the piano.
*The Inheritance - Season 1*

She looks up and sees Nick, incredibly handsome in a royal blue shirt,
leaning against the back of a chair across the room studying her. He
comments that the tune is "hard to get out of your head, isn't
it?" She agrees, noting they came back. He replies they couldn't
let her leave without saying anything and asks her gently if she's OK.
He comments he never thought he'd hear her play that tune again. Clip:Rachel, possessed by Rebecca, sees Nick come to her side and thinks
he's someone else. When she realizes it's Nick, she faints in his arms.
*The Inheritance-Season 1*

She smiles wryly and tells him she thought she'd forgotten it. He quietly
says, "You can't, that's the problem." He moves from behind
the chair to sit next to her on the piano bench saying, when you go
through what they go through regularly, no one walks away unscarred.
Rachel, near tears, tells him she can't do it anymore and wants her
life back. Nick replies, "That's fair. The decision's yours."
She goes on to tell him she wants her life to be like it was before
she ever heard of the Legacy and the house and she wants Kat to have
normal friends and a future. She asks him why that's so wrong. Nick
replies that it isn't wrong. He adds, "You have a big decision
to make, I don't envy that." Rachel tells him she already made
it. Nick, looking at her, simply and gently replies, "OK. You know
where to find me." She leans into him and he kisses her cheek firmly
as she hugs his arm tightly before leaving the room.

Foyer

Rachel walks out of the living room as Derek and Alex come down the
steps. Derek asks her to reconsider before she does something she may
regret. Rachel tells him she regrets waiting so long to leave. Alex,
looking carefully at Rachel tells her she's felt the same thing. The
dark side can be very seductive and she reminds her that it almost got
her to leave the house right there in the foyer.Clip:
After a dinner party at the house, Daniel Euwara encourages Alex
to join him to help heal the sick in his rituals. *Spirit Thief-
Season 2*Alex tells Rachel if she would have left she'd
have lost everything, just because she wasn't strong enough.

Rachel replies it isn't about weakness. She feels different because
she's the only one with a child and she feels Kat is growing up without
her. She feels she needs to reorder her priorities and to spend more
time with her instead of with the Legacy or she'll grow up and be gone
and she'll have missed it. She looks at Derek and tells him that the
real temptation is there at the Legacy. It takes more resolve to leave
than to stay. The danger and the risks are like an addiction. She adds
that she also worries that if she doesn't come back one day what will
happen to Kat.

Derek reminds her that family is important but she is a part of the
family there. He remembers the relief he felt. Clip:
Derek receives the call from Nick that Rachel and Kat are OK. He
sighs with deep relief and replies, "Excellent, great work Nick.
Bring them home." *The Inheritance - Season 1*

He reminds her that when he found out that his own father had contact
with her ancestors he didn't want to accept it either. Clip:
Derek shows Rachel the pictures he found in his father's journal
and tells her about Joshua Cantwell and that his father accidentally
killed Rachel's mother. Derek reminds her that she was meant to be a
part of the Legacy and ties to get her to think about her gifts and
that he considers some things were "meant to be." *The
Inheritance - Season 1*

He then asks if Kat also wants to leave. Rachel is angry and tells
him that isn't fair. Derek responds quickly, "Isn't it?" reminding
her that she 's saying she's leaving because of her. He asks her to
talk to Kat "with her heart" first. Then they'll accept whatever
she decides.

Library

Kat gets up and goes into the library where she sees the sword in its
display on the mantle. She remembers Derek using that sword. Clip:
Derek calls to Kat to run and he tells the demon Joshua Cantwell
he cannot have her. He grabs the sword and throws it but Cantwell catches
it and stabs Derek. They struggle and eventually Derek plunges the sword
into the demon and it disappears. *The Inheritance - Season 1*

Rachel comes into the library and asks Kat if she's OK. She kneels
down and asks how she feels about leaving, saying they haven't had much
time to spent together but now things will change. Kat suddenly realizing
that Rachel doesn't intend to ever return, tells her she's sad. Rachel
reassures her they'll start all over. Kat, tells her mother that she'll
still be different than everyone else because she sees things other
people don't and that's why she doesn't have friends at school.

Rachel reassures her she'll make new friend and that they just won't
talk about her gift of sight. Kat implores Rachel that she has friends
at the Legacy. Nick is her friend, and Alex understands her and Derek,
she feels safe with. "They're our family now. I don't want to move
away and not see them again!" She adds that she misses Daddy too
but he can't come back to them. Rachel is now crying and Kat reassures
her that it isn't her fault as she continues and says "This is
where I belong, so do you. We're home. Right now." She kisses her
mothers cheek and hugs her.

Derek's office

Derek stands looking out his window at the dark night when Alex and
Nick enter behind him. Nick asks if she'll stay. Derek replies that
some things just must be left to fate. Nick nods and adds that when
she said she was leaving he had an empty feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Derek, still looking outside, agrees, "So did I. She's become one
of us and so has Kat. Let's hope she makes the right decision."

Bedroom

Kat lies asleep under the covers. Rachel kisses her gently and goes
to the table to write in her journal.

"They say you see yourself in your children,
and while I know it's true, when I look at Kat, I also feel afraid.
Afraid that what I've done has somehow placed her whole life at risk.
We are both bound to the Legacy with ties we cannot break. All I ask
is for the strength to see her grow and to survive."